Edeltuch Szmul received transit visa no. 1322 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva, aged 21.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
21
Occupation
Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Where this comes from
The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then… No.45, 1918 Biala Podl.
The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe… #118/132, age 23, b. Biala Podl., yeshiva, arr 25.2
hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: EDELTUCH Szmul JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 20: EDELTUCH Szmul, file no. 7848. Match: register No.1322 'Edeltuch zmul' (repaired: Edeltuch Szmul), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree.